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Time to reset economic development

We mustn’t go on with our creaking orthodox reading of economic development which is often ...

Good Local Economics Regeneration

Uniting the crowd

Crowd-based tools have the power to put citizens at the heart of urban renewal. In ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The social face of local economic development

Unless we have a focus on place and a context which tackles the underlying social ...

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

We need ‘economic development practitioners without borders’

Knowing how precarious our economic conditions will continue to be, we should be working as ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Building a more decentralised economy

What are the conditions needed for local economies to be built around SMEs, social enterprises ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The green economy – our big opportunity

A green economy is not a sub-set of the economy at large – our whole ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

What should local economic development do now?

While policymakers flip-flop it’s up to local areas themselves to take the bull by the ...

Communities Economic Development Finance Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The wisdom of crowds

Crowdfunding is now a legal form of finance for start-ups in the US. Storm Cunningham ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The ragged-trousered optimists

Like the workers in Robert Tressel’s book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, who threw themselves into ...

Regeneration

Putting the innovation into the high street

There is still a chance to salvage much of the legacy of the Portas Review, ...